Supporting collaboration between young people could ease mental health crisis

Youth Work
A plan to improve recruitment and retention is staff is also need to sustain the early years sector, leaders say. Picture: LightfieldStudios/Adobe Stock

Nurseries 'will cut funded places' to meet rising costs

Early Years

Welsh parliament rejects outright ban on smartphones in schools

Safeguarding 'blighted by silence on racism’

Social Care

Youth charity turns heads with billboard campaign

Youth Work
James Hempsall is managing director of Coram Hempsall's

It’s time for early years and childcare to have a forum of their own

Early years education

Identification of child sexual abuse reaches record low

Children's Services

One in four children in England need social care by the time they turn 18

Social Care
June O’Sullivan is chief executive of the London Early Years Foundation. Picture: LEYF

Beyond the tooth fairy: Will government policies improve our children’s smiles?

Public Health

Scottish council U-turns on children's services cuts

Children's Services
Pupils are returning to school after the summer holidays. Picture: Lucie Carlier

Concern over use of school funding for disadvantaged children

Education

Fall in number of agency children's social workers

Social Care